Advanced Psychotherapy Skills: The Timeline Technique.
What you'll learn
- Understand the theory of the Timeline Technique.
- Plan and run timeline therapy sessions effectively.
- Work effectively with clients to use timelines to achieve better counselling outcomes.
- Use advanced variations of the technique focusing on time and meaning.
Requirements
- Understanding of basic counselling / psychotherapy theory and practice.
Description
A genuine CPD course which will add a effective new option to your therapy toolkit
The timeline technique offers a powerful way of helping clients generate a coherent sense of self, creates space for reflection on unhelpful self-narratives. By looking at life ‘in the whole’, generating connections between events and reflecting on what they mean, clients can deepen their self-insight, put difficult events into the past, and create opportunities for positive growth.
Drawing on concepts from narrative therapy, psychodynamic theory, and gestalt and person-centred approaches, this psychotherapy approach involves clients generating positive and negative memories of past events, and placing them in a timeline.
By the end of the course, you will be confident in using this powerful technique. This course gives a brief overview of the core theoretical approaches which inform the timeline technique, identify which clients may benefit from this approach and work through the four phases of the approach (preparation, implementation, reflection and revisiting). It also provides practical methods and details on working with specific client populations such as those with trauma and depression.
Alongside and in-depth exploration of traditional timeline, this course also introduces two new variations – one focused on changing meaning of events, and a second which extends the timeline from the past and present through to the future.
A series of easy to understand video lessons (including practical guidance, prompts and discussion of key issues) are supported by worksheets, note decks and an optional certification of your CPD time.
Written and delivered by Prof. Dan Frings, an expert on mental health and a therapist with his own successful private counselling and therapy practice, this course will empower you to successfully use the timeline technique to improve client outcomes.
Who this course is for:
- This course is intended for counsellors and psychotherapists who are currently seeing clients and wish to improve their practice.
Instructor
Dan Frings is a Professor of Psychology with a research background in mental health and a passion for supporting others growth. He is also a practicing psychotherapist and counsellor with a successful private practice.
As well as supporting his clients growth, he also helps counsellors and psychotherapists develop their own skills and confidence.